Comprehensive Sports Guide: Rules, Conditioning & Equipment

Athletic mastery depends on understanding official gameplay rules, optimizing equipment technology, and implementing sport-specific conditioning drills.

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Swimming & Runny Noses

Newcomers to the wet world of swimming often become confused when they suddenly find themselves stricken with a runny nose after spending some time in the pool or pond.

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How to Swim and Not Get Air in Your Stomach

For the beginner or intermediate swimmer, bloating, belching and stomach pains often follow a long swim. This is commonly due to aerophagia, or the act of ingesting air while swimming.

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Workout Routines for Lacrosse Players

Lacrosse athletes require the same type of strength, power and conditioning work as soccer players. Theyโ€™ve got to be able to sprint, cut, jump and shoot, and perform these activities for a relatively long duration.

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Perfect Age for Bodybuilding

People of all ages perform bodybuilding exercises for the increased strength, health and physically fit appearance they produce. These heavy-resistance exercises place a large amount stress on the body, which reacts in different ways at different ages.

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What to Eat After a Half Marathon

A half marathon is a 13.1-mile race that requires an immense investment of time, energy and research regarding the correct training regimen and nutrition. Nutrition leading up to the race has its own set of rules, and after the race, particular foods improve immediate and longer-term recovery.

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How to Tighten the Crank on a Bike

Bicycles have two types of cranks, cotterless and cottered. Cottered cranks are often found on older bicycles, and you can identify these from the cotter bolts that thread through the top of the crank arm. A cotterless crank has a hex bolt in the center top of the crank arm.

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The Advantages of Playing Football

Playing football provides numerous types of advantages, such as increased aerobic and anaerobic fitness, improved fitness skills and even psychosocial benefits.

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How to Replace a Football Bladder

Football bladders are similar to an inner tube. When the air valve fails or the bladder is punctured, the best solution is replacement. Not all footballs have independent bladders, and you identify these by molded laces.

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How to Swim While You Have a Cold & Cough

The common cold is often accompanied by symptoms such as a stuffed-up and runny nose, coughing, sneezing, watery eyes and difficulty breathing, particularly during exercise. Sufferers may also experience a low-grade fever, a sore throat or mild body aches.

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Do You Wear Shoes for Pilates?

When Joseph Pilates developed his exercise methodology, he was influenced by gymnastics, yoga, martial arts, boxing, bodybuilding and diving, as well as Eastern and Western philosophies.

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What Shoes Are Compatible With Stationary Bikes?

Most stationary bikes have two-sided pedals: one side is a platform with an attached toe clip โ€” or cage โ€” and adjustable strap; the other side has a mechanism that fits a cycling shoe outfitted with an SPD clip.

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Fluid Vs. Magnetic Bike Trainers

While indoor training is less appealing than riding outside for most cyclists, itโ€™s a necessity for serious riders who want to train uninterrupted by inclement or seasonal weather.

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How Many Calories Are Burned on a 20-Minute Bike Ride?

A 20-minute bike ride to work, as part of your daily exercise routine, gives your body a complete workout. As well as toning muscles in your legs, thighs and calves, you benefit from the cardiovascular activity and effectively burn calories.

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What Are the Benefits of Steroids for Athletes?

Scandals involving steroid use by sports figures are frequent--athletes appear willing to risk their health, employment, and freedom to gain an โ€œedgeโ€ on the competition. Such risk is not surprising given the large financial rewards often involved.

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How to Mold Snowboard Boots

Molding snowboarding boots is a way to customize your equipment to enhance your performance. Many of the current snowboarding goods manufacturers, such as Burton, Ride and Vans, market boots that come ready with heat moldable boot liners.

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How to Increase Stamina for Basketball

Basketball requires speed, strength, quickness and overall athleticism. Conditioning drills for basketball can help you get in shape to play the game competitively. However, your coaches may push you very hard to get in the best shape possible because they want you to have stamina in the late stages of the game.

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Rules and Regulations for Baseball

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in the world. Although there are a few variations in game rules due to age differences and other factors, the basic rules are largely the same no matter where a game is being played or who is playing it.

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Safety Rules for Basketball

Many people think of basketball as a noncontact sport. However, anyone who has ever fought for a rebound under the backboard knows that is not the case. When it comes to player safety, there are several precautions that players and teams must take to ensure the health of the individuals participating in the game.

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